The Cake Eaters - 43. D2: The Mighty Ducks - Part 9

Episode Date: October 25, 2022

Heath & Brandon dive into the 1994 classic D2:The Mighty Ducks! Today’s episode goes over minutes 80-90. They discuss Bombay's Circus, the emergence of a third Bash Brother, the antics of Cowboy Dwayne, how almost every Duck is a liability on the ice, and Brandon has some Fun With Flags. Then we witness the greatest locker room speech of all time and brace ourselves for another Minnesota Miracle in part 10. Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod) Email us at [e-mail]

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You should have called it the 9th Wonder of the World Because it's part 9, but it's fine. It's fine. Welcome back, everybody, to the Cake Eaters podcast. That was Heath with the grand, albeit slightly inaccurate, intro. My name is Brandon, and today we're talking – we're continuing our talk about D2, The Mighty Ducks, Part 9. Heath, we are in the homestretch right now. The meat, the meat of the movie, minutes 80 through just past minute 90.

Honestly, Brandon, I was going to try and come up with something clever, but I'm just, I'm really kind of fucking mad at you for shitting on my delightful circus opening like i it's just if it makes you if it makes you feel any better i didn't even think about the ninth wonder of the world until you said eighth wonder and then i was like oh it's part nine okay that that does make me feel better i was gonna make some kind of like bearded lady reference reference towards you or something like say i'm canceling your your act but okay we'll keep it in why would you why would you cancel the bearded lady i don't know not only not only is that body shaming but that's misogyny heath oh it was the first act i could think of of course nothing nothing else i'm just staring at your beard and it was the first act i could think of

okay all right let's reset it's fine we're gonna we're gonna reset this because brandon we have what is the wildest second period of hockey that could have ever happened for team usa hence the circus intro yes this is this is what everybody came to this movie for, these 10 minutes. This is prime Mighty Ducks. Yeah. This is where Team USA morphs from the Eagles back into those Ducks. Yep. Exactly.

All right. So what we're picking up last we left off was we're a little more than halfway through period one of the final, the Iceland Team USA final game. Sanderson just slashed Banks right across his injured wrist. He gets a penalty, goes to the box, and Kenny Wu calls him a goon on his way out. Just a correct assessment there from our boy, Kenny Wu. Just what a mother-loving goon that Sanderson is. Olaf Sanderson, get out of here. With a little bit of spoiler alert here, but, I mean, Kenny Wu calling him a goon,

a little bit of the pot calling the kettle black here. That is true. Scott, when you point one finger, there's three pointing right back at you, Brandon. Exactly. Those in glass houses. Take that to the bank. Yep. You know what they say, Heath? Fool me once, shame on you.

All right. And then we're going to fool you twice with the intro of this episode. Getting started in the game. We have Banks showing Bombay with a taped wrist on the bench. He says, Coach, he hit the pad. I am good to go. You know, feeling lean to me. Exactly.

Yeah. And we need Banks in this because we are hard up for some athletes because we are struggling as a team yes yes it is uh it's not looking so great we're only we're a little more than halfway through the first period like we said but yeah it's not looking great we are uh we're struggling yeah but you know who's not struggling brandon that home crowd because we see the wave coming in hot and fast. Whoa! Are you a participator in the wave at games, or are you a fun sponge and stay seated? I will participate. I'm a reluctant participator, though, because the wave is stupid.

Well, I mean, if you hate fun, it's definitely stupid. We did the wave at the Bananas game. It was great stuff. Everyone was locked in. Well, that's because it's the Bananas game. Everybody's locked into the bullshit at the Bananas game. Oh, come on. Let's not besmirch the Bananas. That is, the Bananas are everything that the league underneath single a baseball should be

that's like you need to convince people to come to your baseball games and that's enough fun to convince me to come every time it's hard to get tickets it's like fucking impossible to get tickets and then it's a huge tourist attraction yeah yeah well i'm yeah for for anybody for anybody who doesn't know what we're talking we're talking about the savannah bananas which are a yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah banana ball not baseball which means they just add they just make up weird rules they dance in the middle of innings they just it's think harlem globetrotters but baseball yeah that's perfect they we went to a game where they had to play a little bit more baseball because it was uh gearing up for the playoffs okay so they there's a little more baseball than they do buckle down yeah yeah towards the end yeah but but but yeah if that interests

anybody yeah check them out savannah bananas um i'm sure you can find all sorts of videos on youtube of them doing shit just bonkers stuff it's great i'm locked into the savannah sports scene now brandon as a as a you know half game season ticket holder for the savannah ghost pirates hockey i'm i'm fully locked and loaded ready to go the only beef that i have with with them honestly and not to like totally sidebar us like right off the bat but their affiliate is the las vegas golden knights and um you know that's it's fine it's just as soon as they go up to the to the vegas team you know we cheer against them when they play the apps but they do have some merch that says what happens in savannah goes to vegas and

that's just good stuff that's a pretty solid shirt actually right that's what i said i was like wow okay this is good you did a great job so i hope that they kind of you know get some good in-game shenanigans too. And wasn't that expensive? It's like $20 a game. Minor League Hockey, you're not going to get in-game shenanigans like the Bananas, but the – In between periods. In between periods, the promotions, the weird people that they have come do all that stuff. Minor League Hockey is a circus for for sure i can't wait i can't

i cannot wait especially echl it's not it's not ahl it's echl it's double ice you're yeah it's definitely you're definitely gonna get some some shenanigans uh off the ice for sure and i can't wait in the mascot i to i full approval from me for the mascot because it's a full pirate regalia but like a ghost body it's good stuff did they consult with you at all about anything

unfortunately they did not you know honestly I don't know I just spitballing off the top of my head I don't know how lucrative of a business this would be, but you should start a mascot consulting firm. Yeah, just for some spare change on the side to help fund our podcast. Or it could take off. It could be a full-time gig.

Just traveling around the country. Can you not think of which song to pick for your mascot dance? Well, have I got the guy for you? It's all up Heath. He'll help you with all your mascot needs. There is a competition that just closed to name it, but I was just, I don't know. I couldn't think of anything fun or clever enough. What'd they choose?

Did they say anything? It hasn't been announced yet. It hasn't been announced. So we'll see. i'm trying to think because there's a lot of you know like uh the old pirate house is some great brunch buffet but it also has a lot of pirate ghost stories in there too it's great yeah yeah uh all right anyways should we should we i can't think of anything fun either yeah yeah yeah that's i asked asked Kelly and she was like ghosty. And I was like, well, that's about all I got to not taking the time to fill out a form and submit fucking ghosty. I guarantee you at least at least 100 people sent in ghosty.

That's what I'm saying. I'm not going to be the hundred and first. That's what I'm saying. I'm not going to be the 101st. That's not worth my time. So, all right. We have the crowd, USA crowd, trying to get back in it. Ghost Pirates games, I will be starting and doing the wave. I'm just kidding. I would never start the wave, but I will always participate.

So, crowd trying to get it back in the game. Connie is skating up. She drops it back to the game connie is skating up she drops it back to mendoza who ducks under a check and then cowboy duane doing what he does worst but before we get to before we get to how terrible duane is i want to point out so they come off the wave and they go into the ice great piece of camera work right cinematography on top notch a plus they cut down and i believe it's connie skating with the puck and she's skating along the boards and she moves away from the board just a little bit and as she does that an iceland guy comes full superman diving out of nowhere what what is he trying to accomplish with the fucking

superman dive oh I miss that. Oh, yeah. He comes – I tried to slow it down and get the number to see who it was, but I couldn't tell. Oh, dang. He comes like Superman diving and just fucking slides away. And it's like, what are we trying to do here, dude? Oh. Unbelievable.

Yeah, I miss that poor defense from Iceland, but I can tell you this right now. Wolf the dentist did not miss that. He probably got pulled and reamed out a little bit. Yeah, that's a Bombay disciple move. It's fucking Superman diving out of nowhere. Stanton would not let that fly. Discipline. Iceland.

Exactly. But yeah, so then that happens. They pass it to Dwayne and duane that's a dirty dangles going but son of a gun you can duane does what duane does and he does not pass the fucking puck oh my god just abs and then what happens a well-deserved just gets absolutely dump truck because i'm pretty sure like i didn't know if i was going crazy when i was watching this but i'm pretty sure we've seen this before in the first fucking game. Dwayne, can we can we maybe make some quick choices with the puck?

Like juke someone out, make the other guy rotate, you know, like, let's come on. Let's play some some good hockey here. That's the problem with this first period into the second period is we get classic bombay coaching they're making the same mistakes the exact same mistakes they made in the first game disgusting i'm just like sickened did we not did we not learn anything did we not watch any tape bombay well i mean from that coaching montage supposedly we did but it's just too little too late at this point. The coaching montage, he mentions that they are going to watch tape. It's never shown that they actually do, though.

Yeah, that's just the only thing that can rescue them at this point, Brandon, is a little bit of magic. Do they have it this time? I don't know. i guess we'll have to dig into episode 10 to see but um before we do that after cowboy duane gets wrecked we've got iceland on the break and we've got luis gunning to catch up and slow ass luis yep brandon did the social media haters not give you enough feedback for you to lay off luis i just it's terrible it's a terrible take i'm just saying if he was actually any fast he would have caught this guy well technically he kind of caught up to him because he got the assist

by wiping him out into goldberg and it scores a goal let's say it was a penalty 100 percent of penalty and if the gold if the puck doesn't go into the net the dude gets a penalty shot 100 yeah so just great job luis so and so um i just in my notes i put terrible play there all around by the ducks yeah it was oh that's rough rough business and so uh and so how do we follow that up we better hit a flying v brandon we need some momentum on our side so show me the flying v let's go says bombay yeah flying v and that's the other thing so the flying v is in itself not a great move but the other thing that the other thing that really hinders the flying v from being successful is when they shout it at the top of their lungs that that's what they're doing that's what i'm

saying because wolf literally turns and it's like everyone, we know what they're doing. Yeah, Wolf was like – he's legitimately turned around looking at Bombay, listening to him. And he's like, okay, they're doing the flying V, guys. And then let's square up. That reminds me, Stanton, right after – to go backwards a little bit. Right after Banks talks to Bombay and he's like, oh, I'm fine. He's just at the pad. Banks talks to Bombay And he's like oh I'm fine Bombay gets up and he walks over On the bench and he's like Staring at Stanton and as soon as

Stanton turns around to like do the stare down Bombay cowers and turns around And goes the other way Yeah whips around and is like oh I'm so mad at you I can't even look at you Which is the that's the second time Because he did pretty much the exact same thing In the first game right

It was about to be a staring contest and Bombay just puts his head down, which I found incredibly disappointing because remember in Game Changers Season 1, right? At the – he's talking about the coach stare down, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah. And about how he always wins it when every single stare down we see him try to do in the movies he loses every single fucking time somebody wolf was in his kitchen though for like 100 wolf was in his kitchen all tournament oh yeah he's wolf just wasn't in his kitchen he was making bombay a little omelet and toast for breakfast in the morning that's how in his kitchen he was i guarantee you bombay still has nightmares about wolf the dentist

to this i mean it started right off the bat with tibbles that's wolf the dentist stanson he's wound a little tight that was a great response i tibibbles, but yeah. So am select from Iceland gets the goal after a terrible play. We've got the fly and V come in. We've got Iceland playing this perfectly and just most through every single fricking duck in that V four on one break. And we get some beautiful, beautiful team hockey between a stall and sanderson it's a nice little give and go for and of course goldberg overplays stall just wildly out of position for

you know just an easy little you know open netter for sanderson classic goldberg and we're and we're down 4-0 brandon and so i want to tee you up for what i'm assuming is um real pissy goldberg takes you know like i'm just we're down 4-0 and this is in the first period this is the end of the first period this is when end of the first period that's how it closes yep uh and we still got goldberg in between the pipes what are your thoughts on that that's unbelievable there's there's i there's no words to to describe it we've said i think everything that can be said about just the utter disrespect to julie the cat gaffney uh i get it's never been more prevalent than it is right now because the first game when it got 4-0 in the third period he pulled goldberg goldberg got the hook from it like i i yeah he tried to pull goldberg and then

he tried to pull goldberg and once again i was a goldberg loyalist as a kid he was afraid maybe he was afraid julie would get ejected again. Just start taking, just literally just start swinging her stick around and just wiping dudes out. You want to show a slash, Sanderson? Slash in your neck. But yeah, Goldberg had no business starting this game. And he has no business still being in this game, down 4-0 after one period. In the championship.

Like, geez. And now or never. Well, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on the Luis goal. There's not much he could have done there. That's true. But still, he's given up three goals in one period and they're real bad goals the louise goal would give him a pass on or not the yeah the louise goal but the other three were not pretty they were he was wildly out of position yeah every time

yeah every time like i'll just i like i i again, I was a Goldberg loyalist as a kid. Love that guy. Just, you know, he was, he was everything you'd want in a goalie until I became an adult. And I was like, son of a gun, Julie, the cat just got absolutely robbed. Like it just, it was just an absolute injustice through and through. And we just have to say it one last time because Jesus. Don't get me wrong i love goldberg but he's a trash goalie that's goldberg is everything you want in a teammate everything you want in a teammate he's great all the cheeky shenanigans all the fun like

you know he's keeping the team light keeping them loose they're ready to rock and roll ready to win just don't keep just don't get in between the pipes goldberg it's all massive yeah and just or you gotta have a quick hook with that guy because he's gonna fall apart real quick right like he just he's like oh shit not today let me just go crush a philly sub and you know from from mom and dad's delicatessen and we'll get it again let me just crush this grinder and we'll hit it again tomorrow. Exactly. He's, he's quick.

He's, he's quick with his quitting trigger. So you got to be quick with your, with your pulling trigger. Exactly. That's, that's all I'm saying. That's all I'm asking for in a future coach. So, all right. Anyways, let's move on. And here we have the beginning of the circus, Brandon. Start of the second period.

David versus Goliath is what our buddy says on the announcing. And then Averman gives us probably, honestly, the best way you could ever start a period in sports is by asking the other team to ease up a bit. I loved every Kenny, Kenny Wu. Oh, I, they, and then,

and then Averman backs it right up with like, you guys want to take it? He said, no. Okay. I, I thought a check. Yeah.

It's like, I was just, just, just thought I'd ask. Yeah. That was so good. And then immediately Gunner just wipes him off the face of the earth after this. Gunner's not playing that shit.

Yeah. Like, oh, man. No. Just I'm here to score the most goals in the tournament. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. I love Gunner.

And so that sets the tone. The heavy hitting continues. And the Ducks need something drastic to turn this game around. And you've talked about it before, Brandon. What happens? We see some bandanas getting slapped on. We see some fist pumps. And we have some fucking Bash Brothers, boy.

And they come in, and they start laying laying some wood on on team iceland hold on this is one of my favorites is they just go party and crush an iceland dude into the into the uh into the wall or the glass it's just oh my god that would be terrifying. Two massive youths just flying at you, screaming party before your life gets ended into the boards. That is great content from the team there at Disney pumping that out. God, I rewound it a couple of times. I was like, God, that is too funny to me right now. Just party. Wham. Classic. times i was like god that is too funny to me right now just party wham

uh classic and the bench is loving it oh wait hold on the next step is a penalty because we get the bash brothers once again i love this though straight from the wwe we get a clothesline on an iceland player they don't get called for that penalty though yeah but yeah that is a penalty but yeah there's a straight clothesline On an Iceland player. They don't get called for that penalty, though. Yeah. But yeah, that is a penalty. But yeah, it's a straight clothesline. It's a straight clothesline. It's a double clothesline, too.

Which is. Great teamwork. But not a legal play. Not a legal play. But the ref lets it go. Yeah. Oh, my God. The bench is loving it. And they celebrate with a high five and a headbutt and you know we're all

jazzed up brandon but i'd have to just remind everyone of the scoreboard it's still four to nothing it's for all this bash brother party is going on they are losing and this is just the start of the party this is just the start of the party and once again i just have to the differentiation between watching this as an adult and as a kid like as a kid i was like oh yeah this is exactly what they should be doing to get back in the game this is fucking awesome you know and the adult me is like good god they gotta get their shit together they only have a period and a half yeah you know so time time is ticking yeah exactly it just shows how much of a hater you become as you

get old anyways so we got iceland looking to pad their lead we get a great save by goldberg um but still goes completely out of the cold to retreat while they're in the zone. Great play. Great play by Goldberg. I was going to say great save is a bit of an exaggeration. It's a bit much. But instead, we get a pass up to Kenny Wu, skating it up the ice, tries to split the defense. Wolf yells to get him.

He gets his double toe grab. Hamill Camel, remember? Yeah, this is the move he was talking about. It was a triple, triple, I'm trying to remember what he said, triple aerial half toe touch Hamill Camel. No, well, other way around. Triple aerial with a double Hamill Camel and a half toe touch to split the defense

is what he yeah yeah and he yeah it did i i stand corrected because when we were talking about the first time i was like how on earth would that ever split the defense it does right here you're eating your words because wow that spin spinner rooney he puts him in the spin cycle. He's up out of there. Everyone is stunned by the just glorious beauty of the Kenny Wu figure skating show. Fulton has the puck and he looks at everyone and he says, pretty cool, huh? Whips a pass on over. Kenny Wu fires at home. And this is probably my favorite line of the whole movie.

Woo, woo, woo, Kenny Wu. Fucking crushes it, dude. Fuck, I love that. Oh, man, that was probably the standout line that I will always remember forever. Absolutely. As a kid. I love some Kenny Wu as a kid. Dude, Kenny Wu is highly underrated

um yeah the the with the fantastic ice skating moves the figure skating the the triple aerial double hamel camel with the half toe touch just like just like defense just like christy yamaguchi used to do oh Oh, my God. Bless up. You know, just shout out Christy. Is it Christy or Chrissy? It's Christy Yamaguchi. That's right. That's right.

That's right. I think I have any sports illustrated for Tanya. Nancy Kerrigan, Tanya Hardy. Nancy Kerrigan. I was trying to remember all the figure skaters I could name. That's it. That's it. That's my list. When I was back in Wayne, America, and I was going through a whole bunch of old boxes, I think I found a Christy Yamaguchi Sports Illustrated for Kids card.

Dude, she was – She was legit. She was like a craze. The fact that I even know – that anybody knows her name is amazing. She was like a – that was like a – there was like Christy Yamag name is amazing she was like a that was like a there was like christy yamaguchi fever when she was going because she was like um and i think that's the reason why it's because she was a kid herself at the time yeah just i mean that's talking about wheaties boxes brandon yeah fucking height of you know wheaties boxes and having her on those that was

a hot hot ticket that summer oh yeah yeah all right wait hold on let's just jump back yeah man i just man that kenny wu goal gets me fired up but you know who else is super fired up about this goal brandon kenny wu and he lets the iceland goalie know about it you like that like that fancy skating buddy? Again, Bombay Circus, trash talking when you're losing. By three goals in the second period. It's not going super well. But the goalie's like, all right, fuck this little kid.

I'm going to come after him. So the goalie starts skating after him. And what do we get, Brandon? Unbelievable what this goalie does. That the goalie decides, like me just yeah and so what the goalie does is ridiculous he just waddles up to kenny woo and just lets him beat his ass but where's the rest of team iceland you know you can't i i was shocked that team iceland that sanderson let that fly don't let, that's like the number one rule in hockey. Don't let anybody touch your goalie.

Yeah. I, that was in Sanderson. His typical move would have been to just absolutely bull, bull him over. Like, you know, just see him coming from afar,

just a quick little, you know, like spiking him into the ice type of type of move. Or just like, do it. Do you like, like do you like a like cats do with their young, just like grab him by the scruff of his neck and pull him up. I dare you to do that to cat Jesse. You might not see that hand again. He also is too big for that.

It's a 20 pound cat. It's a lot tougher to lift up by the scruff. I think, I think Sanderson could do it. Yeah, that's true. Sanderson's a 20 pound cat it's a lot tougher to lift up by the scruff i think i think sanderson could do it yeah that's true sanderson's a big goon yeah he would do that to a cat but okay so but like i just that that blew my mind it's like come on team iceland like protect your goalie here come on well especially because after kenny hits the stick the gloves and the shirt we see him throwing some haymakers there while the goalie is down haymakers is generous those were brandon those are 12 year old fucking haymakers give kenny woo some credit those are just those are some like like mid-90s

wcw jobbers punches that's what that was the slap of the chest when you're when you're hitting that one home that was those those were those punches left a lot to be desired and and my favorite is after kenny has pulled the goalie down to the ground and is punching him he turns to the ref what did i do and then bombay has all right i was gonna ask you about this that's his mom that's the classic move though so what did i do yeah oh so oh sorry wasn't me i was that was how i played basketball people hated playing it always reminds me of uh of semiPro, the Will Ferrell movie. I fucking love that movie. But the best scene is when he's screaming at the ref and he's like, suck my cock, I'll murder your family.

And then he gets ejected. He's like, what did I say? What did I say? His relationship with that ref is great. I mean, ELE, Brandon. Everybody loves everybody. ELE. ELE's that's my life motto man yeah i was just gonna say that's not just a phrase that's a life motto right there ely everybody love everybody if there's a little bit more of that going around we would be in a much better place as a nation and as a world absolutely yeah not to not to

hashtag preach on everyone but but everybody love everybody. Everybody go watch Semi-Pro. That movie is fantastic. When the ref – Is there a Mighty Ducks tie-in with that movie? Because that would be a good one. We'll have to find one. Find a deep one, even if it's like a co-writer deep in the list.

The scene where he's like, what did co-writer deep in the list you know that's but what that the scene where he's like what did i say to the ref and and then the other one where uh um the ref starts talking about his mom he's like maybe your mom didn't go to heaven jackie so good dude oh god that, that is some great stuff. A quick message from our friends at Broken Forest Collective. Built on a passion for small batch and handcrafted products, Broken Forest provides high-quality casual wear and lifestyle goods that are American-made and built to outlast the fast fashion trends. They also plant a tree in Boulder, Colorado for every product sold. Visit brokenforestco.com and use the code CAKEATERS15

for 15% off your order. To get back to the ducks, we have another weird phrase from Bombay. Remember the one that we caught on the subtitles about the wood, like push wood, Charlie, or whatever? Knock wood, Charlie. Knock wood, Charlie. So we have Bombay on Remember the one that we caught on the subtitles about the wood, like push Charlie or whatever. Knock, knock wood, Charlie.

So we have Bombay on the bench. He says, all right, grim up. We have a lot of work to do. He told him up grim up. And I rewound it a couple of times and I watched the words and heard the words come out of his mouth.

It wasn't just a slip of the subtitles he actually said grim up like the grim you know like the from the harry potter books the grim the big big dog that predicts your death that's or the grim reaper yeah well i like the harry potter reference better don't fear the reaper heath but uh i i didn't i didn't notice that grim up yeah i didn't notice that did you did you google it did no i didn't brandon this is that's not cake eater style i'm not doing a ton of research they're just raw dog in these episodes you know what heath that's my bad my bad yeah you should know better than that this is this is why the listeners love us we're just raw dog episodes right right and right after him

so yeah so grim up okay that's yeah and then and then we have wolf yelling at his players to wake up and as the ref takes kenny into the, what does Kenny say? Two minutes? Well worth it. You got it. Absolutely. Which is a callback to what Sanderson said for those not paying attention. Yep. And if you're not paying attention, the rest of the class is on page 125.

Get your shit together. Callbacks. You know what they call that, Heath? Great writing. That's exactly. But you know who else is fired up about that penalty though brandon the bash brothers fulton and portman decide listen i know there's a game going on but you know what's even better than a game us celebrating the newest intro to the Bash Brothers. Kenny Wu for that great fucking fight.

Oh, wait, wait, wait. We skipped over a great part. Okay, go ahead. Of Kenny Wu's fight. After he does the stick shirt gloves thing, right? Yeah, stick gloves shirt. That one. Stick gloves shirt.

After he does that, it cuts to Russ's big's big brother in the audience oh i taught him that oh you're right i'm so sorry i did miss that i actually i made a note of it to to talk about that and i still missed it so thank you for that and then we get the bash brothers just fucking running amok they just drop their sticks and gloves pop the helmets off the helmets and are just going up to the crowd trying to raise the roof you know of the crowd they're getting fired up and then my favorite is they actually kept their gloves on because my favorite is they do high fives for the ducks and then they bonk the helmets of the iceland team and then the other one bonks the helmet to the iceland team and high fives the ducks and son of a bitch like can someone

get this game under control who's in charge where is the adult at this game this yeah this ref has has zero control over what's going on but that them bonking the heads of team iceland as a kid was like the greatest thing ever i thought yeah just once again the differentiation because like i said here i'm thinking where's the adult but as a kid i was like i am so fired up i would score a hundred goals after this display of awesomeness from the dash brothers when i was a kid i was yeah super pumped i was like this is the greatest fucking thing in the world in my notes about this i just have this is unbelievable you're down four to one and they're just like even after the ref hits them with misconduct penalties they're still just losing their shit in the penalty box with because then they get reunited with their

third bash brother kenny woo and it's just all three of them in the box box with because then they get reunited with their third bash brother kenny woo and it's just all three of them in the box just living oh my god now there's the three bash brothers says the announcer and the goldberg goldberg says something fucking stupid too he's like give it up give it up for the three bash brothers or something like that yeah yeah goldberg you're standing in the middle of the ice all by yourself nobody can hear you dude that's oh he's pumping up the crowd with him he's like yeah we got the three bash brothers because that's a that's a goldberg kind of response to that he's finding that brand that's that irrational confidence to assume that everybody can hear you at all times no Nobody's listening to you, Goldberg.

Listen, he is the epitome of all things goalkeeping. He's got a delightful 4-1 deficit. So that's the Goldberg response. Guess what the Wolf the Dentist Stanson response is? No, what is it? He goes, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure. Destroy. Well, yeah, well, because now. Wolf the dentist Stanson responses he goes destroy cause now they didn't say like what that word meant

but it sounded like destroy what a response I'm assuming that means let's go let's go let's go go go go because now all three of your brash brothers are in the penalty box. Who's going to protect anybody, Heath?

Exactly. Averman's your biggest guy on the ice right now. Well, and Coach Charlie, like you, identifies it. And he says, hey, Connie, they're gunning for you out there. And Connie, being the strong, independent lady she is, she says, don't worry. I'll be fine oh brandon we know she is far from fine because she is caught up on the boards and she so so i got i so she just gets like stuck on the boards for no reason i i love connie okay i love connie now she does some good things in

this movie like she's the only one playing real fucking hockey. Yeah. And I like Connie. She's fantastic. My one complaint, and it's a major complaint, is this scene unfolding. The puck is along the boards, right? Kind of in the corner. She skates up to it. She's the only person. And again,, this has to do with the movie.

How is she the only person within 50 feet of the puck? Yeah. So she skates up there, nobody around her, and she traps it herself up against the boards and then can't get it. She's fighting with herself for the puck. And then can't get it out. Against the boards. Yeah, she's fighting with herself for the puck against the boards. It made no fucking sense.

And again, and she's fighting with her boards and Sanderson is notices her and is skating at her. And this is probably, I would imagine this would, this is probably a lot. This seems like a long time that this is happening, right?

I would say it's a good five seconds of game time that this is unfolding and not a single other person on the ice is paying attention to the puck how where you can see him in the background just skating around in circles doing nothing while connie has the fucking puck up against the boards it's like those old it's like those old electric hockey games you know what i mean like they're just where they're just spinning in circles and then the guy has the puck and you're just like stuck against the boards with it that's it's like it's like a scene out of electric hockey exactly it's the dumbest thing i've ever seen in my life and honestly if i was bombay and i saw connie do that in a real game hold go go to the locker room what are we doing here what are we

doing you literally can't get a puck against the boards when you're skating up there all alone literally you just have to kick it out to yourself and you're on the on your way yeah but that doesn't move the plot along because instead brandon we see cowboy duane kind of give kania look like oh she's not paying attention. They're gunning for her. And then when she's stuck on the boards, here comes Cowboy Dwayne. Yeehaw. Immediate penalty. Too many men on the ice. Immediate penalty.

Yeah, well, and the bench is yelling at him like, what the fuck are you doing, Dwayne? Like, get off the ice. This is insane. And we just get yeehaw. And Sanderson is just screaming. And just get yeehaw um and sanderson is just screaming and we have yeah and it's like we get some good old-fashioned roping it's like when he's uh charging at banks after in the first period when he slashes it or the first game when he slashes him and he's just charging at him like from from for so fucking long just coming in real hot uh and and so we get the the sanderson gets hog tied by cowboy duane and he doesn't hog time he just he it was just for effect geez he always called me when i try to embellish on as a

as a kid from a small town you should know what hog tying is heath yeah i am that's what i'm saying i was embellishing the story to make it more fun as iowa's favorite son you should know what hog tying is brandon oh my fucking god if you leslie note me one more goddamn time in this podcast About Nebraska versus Iowa We're gonna fight We're gonna have issues I can't believe you You say that every time

Oh god I just I fucking hate you Alright hold on Sanderson gets roped Cowboy Dwayne G Connie a big old grin. And when Sanderson gets picked up, Cowboy Dwayne says, where I come from, we treat ladies with respect. And Connie hits him with an awesome line when she says,

I'm not a lady, I'm a duck. And then fucking sucker punch Gut punch Boom Surprise, that didn't get a penalty It should've Honestly, I felt bad for Sanderson in this whole situation Poor dude

Imagine You can't feel bad for the dude Throwing cheap shots around Like they're nothing First of all He hasn't thrown a cheap shot this game. The only cheap shot he did was the Banks one. He threw a cheap shot at Banks

and just missed hit the pad instead of the wrist. That wasn't a cheap shot. That was a good old fashioned slash. Back in my country, Heath. There's never anything good following follow imagine imagine skating full speed and then getting fucking roped and yanked back the dude probably whiplash the dude might have a broken rib

wait did you see what duane said to connie uh after she punched sanderson he's like he's like uh way to go you little philly i thought that was some good cowboy duane stuff cowboy duane is great but jesus he's a hot mess out there on the ice like never fucking passes the rock always turning it over getting penalties for roping dudes on the other team he he's he's a liability 100 percent and so so of course bombay is playing him non-stop i mean honestly i there's very few people on the on the ducks that are not a constant liability on the ice. Banks. Jesse.

Connie. Although Jesse. Jesse's got the Jesse's got the hot temper as we see in the Trinidad game. Yeah. But I feel like Banks, Connie and Guy are the most even of all the team. They're the only people that aren't constantly fucking up. They're consistent. Guy and Connie aren't winning any MVP awards.

No. But they're also not getting burned all the time. Exactly. They're your steady Eddies on the bench. Yeah, they're not spending half the game in the penalty box like the Bash Brothers. Exactly. steady eddies on the bench yeah they're not spending half the game in the penalty box like the bash brothers exactly and then uh before we get uh the announcer saying uh what are they gonna call this two minutes for roping that's a new one on me classic classic ducks what what was his name again? I forget.

Bob Miller. Yeah. Yeah. Chet Chet Hunson for our made up name for him. That was our made up name before we knew. And then, and this is where we get Bombay. This isn't a hockey game. This is a circus.

And in complete agreement, Jan and Tibbles are in the stands looking dejected yeah and i this is bombay's circus but like when he looked up and was like what is this a circus fucking circus going on so yeah you're you're the ringleader bombay this is your goddamn circus oh my god 100 this is a direct reflection of the loosest ship that has ever been run for youth sports him this is this is someone who was going to forfeit them out of the tournament by simply not showing up to a game on time yeah with assuming he was on a full-fledged bender the night before him like looking around and being like i can't believe this circus is going on was unbelievable it's like if somebody it's like if you were sitting at a red light and somebody came barely behind you and rear-ended

you and then got out of the car and like looked at you and was like what happened what you did this yeah you did this like i'm sorry i was stopped at the red lights and that's exactly what this is like what did you expect some kind of disciplined team you literally spent an entire practice of duane roping people on the ice yeah and then we had the whole beach ball practice yeah it's it's not even this is what you get shenanigans when you teach shenanigans. Yeah, especially because he's been such – Say shenanigans one more time. Especially because he's going from one extreme to the other. You had Captain Blood, right, Colin practices, and then he switches to fucking beach ball roping guy.

These kids probably have no idea what to think where where bombay's headspace is at from one day to the next you know what's bombay are we gonna get here unbelievable he's giving them moving targets you know exactly it's they don't know what to expect they're just there's trauma all over the ice exactly and this this is what this is what people with trauma do they act out that's exactly right but i will say this is a great lead into just one of the most epic locker room scenes in the history of sports cinema it's it's pretty good no hyperbole so i before we get into the meat and bones of how great this this scene is, I do want to point out. So they walk in to the the locker room, right? Everybody's ducks are celebrating and having a good old time.

They're celebrating. And so I panned up and I looked at in the background of the shot on the wall is a junior goodwill games poster or something, whatever sign, whatever. And it says, uh, bringing hockey's best competitors together or something like that.

It says uniting the world's best hockey competitors. And then underneath it has a set of 10 flags heath okay and you would think to yourself well it would make sense that these 10 flags are the 10 countries that are competing in the junior goodwill games right no yeah not even fucking close shut up for real so i i got the i have it right in front of me here i didn't even pay attention because i just assumed it. That's what I assumed. Every time watching this movie, that's what I assumed.

I was like, it's just the flags, right? It's the flags of the team still competing. But then this rewatch, I noticed there's a Jamaican flag on it. So I paused it, and I was like, why the fuck is there a Jamaican flag? Did they like – did somebody just assume – did somebody try to fly on the Trinidad and Tobago flag and then give up and just put the Jamaican flag? Which I'm assuming is probably what happened because – That's what I would bet. So they have – one, two, three, four, five. They have six.

Six of the ten flags are correct right okay we have team iceland okay we have denmark yep we have italy we have the u.s we have sweden and we have germany okay six six for six solid right this is where This is where it gets real weird. Okay. As I mentioned, Jamaica, which I'm assuming they fucked up and thought that was – Didn't have Google back in the day. So they just – Do you want to take a wild guess? Wait.

Hold on. I feel like I remember. Is one of them the Japanese flag? No. Damn it. I thought I remembered that one. Okay. No. Okay. Is one of them the Japanese flag? No. Damn it. I thought I remembered that one. Okay. No.

Okay. That would have been pretty good. But all right. What are the next three? So the four countries, right? I'm going to hit you with this first. The four countries that are in the games that we don't have a flag for are Canada. Okay.

Which. It's a tough flag to remember. Russia. France. Okay. Which. It's a tough flag to remember. Russia. France. Okay. And then, and then, and then Trinidad and Tobago. Okay. Those are the four teams that we don't have the flag for.

Yep. So I'm assuming the Jamaica flag was supposed to be Trinidad and Tobago. The other three flags we have are Switzerland. Not even close. I'm assuming maybe they thought that was canada yeah maybe if maybe they changed the names after they put the flags in yeah maybe they maybe these are the teams they had and then and the original teams and then they're like oh we got to do canada dude yeah that for whatever reasons they had to switch it up but so then so then another one um is they have the Czech Republic up here.

Okay. Which is, again, weird. Switzerland and the Czech Republic, I'm not sure where we're pulling those from. They don't really resonate and they don't look like – Doesn't the Czech Republic flag look kind of like the Russian flag? Not to start another – No, no, no. It's the same colors, but Russia is a vertical tricolor yeah so it's like and i

think it's white and then i'm i'm gonna get red or something it's either it's white blue red or red blue i think it's white blue red yeah i could be wrong on that but the czech republic they have a blue triangle on the side, and then it's white and red stacked. So Switzerland, Jamaica, Czech Republic. This fourth one, I had to like – this fourth one is fucking wild. And this is the one I'm assuming was for Russia. Okay. Or I don't know but it's it's so it's a it's a red white and blue vertical tricolor right but it's blue at the top yeah white in the middle red at the bottom okay

and then it has what looks like a red star in the middle white stripe, right? Okay. And I was thinking to myself, I was like, blue, white, red. I can't – I don't think any nation has blue at the top, white, and then red. Netherlands is red, white, blue. Russia is white, blue, red. So I was like Trying to figure out That flag looks familiar but I can't fucking place it

So then I went on to Google And Google was trying to like Figure that out and Google was a little Tough, it took me a little bit but I found it What I I'm 99% sure this is the flag That's up there It's for the former Yugoslavia.

Oh, nice. Okay. A little Cold War action going on here at this Junior Goodwill game. Maybe that was the original bad guy. Instead of Iceland. In 94, though? I was just kidding. I'm sure it was just kidding.

I'm sure it was just an honest mistake, Brandon, that they thought they had the right flag, and you are the only lunatic that is going to really dig into the flags that they had in the junior Goodwill games. Now I have to go back next time I rewatch it and I guess pay attention to it. That's insane. now i have to go back with next time i re-watch it and i guess pay attention to it that's so you yugoslavia disbanded in disbanded is a very delicate very safe word of choosing what they did disbanded in 1992 so i don't think i don't think they would have chosen yugoslavia as the

bad guy because like we said like we said bro just an accident brandon they probably just grabbed flags that's a that's a shitty accident to throw up fucking yugoslavia i'm just saying that brandon this is the same you're acting like they paid a lot of attention to this stuff they i'm just saying we had full newspaper clippings that said nothing on them of any substance i'm just saying if we're gonna throw flags up because there are a lot of flags that have some terrible histories and some terrible meanings and backgrounds i'm just saying in yugoslavia not the best track record a lot of war crimes committed by yoslavia. Maybe we just do a double check.

Just a quick double check to make sure. Not in the 90s. Absolutely not. And then why is Jamaica up there? Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, not the same thing. Yeah. Well, I mean, that's just, you know, people being idiots. I'm just saying whatever intern, whatever dumbass fucking intern they put in charge of the flags, he really dropped the ball. Really dropped the fucking ball.

Fool him once, shame on you. God, can we get back to the best scene ever? Just flag nonsense. You got way too worked up about those flags, Brandon. Because it's fucking Yugoslavia. How do you just throw Yugoslavia up there? Why do you like flags this much? You need to do like on – oh, my God.

Why am I blanking on the show? But the guy – Sheldon when he does Fun with Flags on Big Bang Theory. There it is, Big Bang Theory. Except after episode – or season four, that show really starts to get on your nerves a little bit. I was never a fan of that show i never really watched it well you're a hater anyways okay so we're back to the locker room we're ignoring the junior goodwill games flags sure just as best we can just ignore all of yugoslavia's war crimes he's go for it it's you putting words in my mouth so not talk about that and we go we have bombay coming into the locker room and he says did you enjoy that and the team says yeah we hell yeah and guess what brandon so did they

because they're still three points up and we're one period away from defeat. It's still four to one, guys. It's four to one. Yeah. This is a real quick reminder here, team. We're celebrating getting our asses kicked. And Jesse responds, you know, always talking tough. He says, if we can't beat them, might as well keep our pride. And then Bombay gets a little Saturday morning kind of preachy action.

And he says, Jesse, that's not pride. Sure, when Dwayne wrote that big oath, part of me cheered. Guys, I've been there. I know how you feel. I wanted to cream that jerk that busted my knee when I played in the minors. And I really, really wanted to go after jerk that busted my knee when i played in the minors and i really really wanted to go after stanson after that cheap shot but you know what i had a real problem he will heal i had a real problem with both of those things that he mentioned i had a real problem

with that one the dude from minor league it wasn't a dirty hit is it he went body to he went body to body you're just a frail old man and you need shattered okay bombay and then the one with stanson he could not get up and go after him yeah he couldn't have done that and b you fucking deserved it because you're a prick you fucking talking fucking talking shit dude he he was talking a lot of shit, Brandon, but the moral to that story is if he becomes someone that he's not, I sink to their level. And then I've lost more than my knee. You understand? Which, once again, is him really talking out of turn because he really became someone he's not. Hollywood Bombay, just from like tiny bits of peer pressure

one hollywood party and that was like photo shoot and that was like three days ago like oh man that was that was but you know that's where adults are fickle you know especially lawyers you know my mom used to say do as i say not as i do yep that's that's exactly and bombay agrees because he says we're not goons we're not bullies no matter what people say or do we have to be ourselves and then i i actually love this part as a kid too he just goes hey where are you from who are you where are you from this part always seemed weird to me like where where are you writing them even though they're all from fucking minnesota but i love it what what i think they were going for um because as as we mentioned

earlier in that like training montage after team iceland when he's having them skate back and forth. Yeah. Come together. It's like a, it's a, it's a little, it's a tip of the hat and homage to the miracle on ice team, right? That the famous story of them doing all the sprints. I think this is another tip of the hat to the miracle on ice team,

because part of that whole sprint practice, there's a thing. Herb Brooks was the coach of the miracle on ice team. Are you familiar with, with where I'm going with this he's kind of so gently it's been a while for you and everybody else the the thing so throughout the miracle on ice teams like practicing and games up until the olympics Herb Brooks would always ask the team during practices and stuff, he'd be like, tell me your name and who you play for. And at the beginning of the practice all the way up until the games,

everybody would answer my names. And these are all like kids that just graduated college. This was before they let pros play. So everybody would always answer their name, and then they would say the college they played for, right? And he kept asking that question. And then what finally changed was during the famous sprint back and forth practice after the game against Norway is Mike Aruzioni finally answered the question, my name is Mike Aruzioni. I play for Team USA.

And then that's when he practiced. So I think that's kind of what they were going for. It's like an homage and a tip. But it doesn't land again because like you said. They're all saying different cities. Yeah. We're even getting down into the suburbs. People are naming specific neighborhoods within Minneapolis.

I love that. I loved every second. Ohon you can't hate on this this is this is it's such a magical scene this is where you know that it doesn't it doesn't land it doesn't land oh brandon the pot of minnesota miracle man magic is moving from the stewing on the back burner it got moved up It's getting that last blast of heat. Here we are, Brandon. A delicious stew. A concoction of miracles. As a kid, I will say, I loved it.

As a kid, I thought it was great. It doesn't land. It doesn't land. It definitely doesn't land as much as the next part. The next part is what fucking lands. That's what fucking lands. The next part. But I love this too

can i go do you want me to go through everyone i was going to say one fun thing that i learned before you you list off everybody i'm going to spoil it a little bit one fun thing i learned during this is that miss mckay was from minnesota yeah yeah when i was watching this i was like oh i remember that i remember that all right so first we have Dean Portman, Chicago, Illinois. You, Guy Germain. Did you just say Illinois? Yeah. Why are you putting an S on the end?

I don't know. Illinois? Yeah, there you go. How are you from Nebraska and don't know how to say Illinois? I don't know. I just said Illinois. Don't pronounce the S. I like to.

You're going to get eviscerated for this. Don't put it on social media then, you dick. I absolutely will. All right. Gujermain, St. Paul, Minnesota. Jesse Hall, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Julie the Cat, Bangor, Maine. I've always wanted to – it's a weird place to really want to visit but i really want to go visit portland maine it's been on my list of

things to do i just want to eat a whole bunch of lobster it's not a weird place portland maine really yeah it's beautiful right yeah well yeah i want to go so bad during the summer during the winter yeah yeah summer summer trip not a i'm not going to go freeze my took us off up there. Never, never go to Maine in the winter. That's how every single Stephen King book starts. It's in the main, it's in Maine in winter. Oh, yikes. And you know, living in Savannah, I get hauntings and ghosts and stuff.

I swear this room that I'm recording in definitely had some bad juju i don't know man there's some weird sometimes you just if you if you crash in here it just feels a little spooky some days did you stage it well kelly handles all that stuff i don't you know kelly kelly does the witchcraft i do i do the housework maybe that's why it's got the bad juju kelly's in there doing fucking you know satanic opening opening up portals through the mirror she not to get too off topic again or to talk to about kelly too much but she was she was working this morning and was doing it by like candlelight like she just had candles it's like it looks like you're about to sacrifice one of the animals to the work gods,

like for success and growth in your career. It was really fun. You got to do what you got to do. All right. So back to the people, we got Luis Mendoza, Miami, Florida,

Greg Goldberg, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He claims Philly. Yeah, because he's born in Philly. Well, I mean. And we don't exactly know. He's going to be one of those people that's like, oh, I was born in Philly, but we moved to Minneapolis when I was 12. Yeah, yeah.

We don't know how long he's been in minneapolis he might have moved you know when he was like two yeah i was i was gonna give him the benefit of the doubt since he says he's from philadelphia that he called a liar wow now who hates goldberg i just don't like false affiliations it's like you know but of course he's gonna say phil he's he's constantly wearing flyers gear of course he's going to say Philadelphia. He's constantly wearing Flyers gear. Of course he's going to say Philadelphia. Well, and it helps differentiate the all not from Minneapolis, even though we are. Yeah.

Because that's where we get Les Averman from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Hell yeah. We get Fulton Reed from Stillwater, Minnesota. And he gets a that's right from Portman after he says his. Do you notice that? I guarantee you that's the first time Portman's ever heard of Stillwater, Minnesota. Yeah, but he's like, that's right. Bash brothers stick together, man.

Russ Tyler, South Central Los Angeles. Charlie Conway, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Kenny Wu from San Fran. Got Connie Moreau from Minneapolis. Adam Banks from? Edina. Cake Eater. Hell yeah, man.

And then we've got Dwayne Robertson, Austin, Texas. Michelle McKay, Duluth, Minnesota. And then Gordon Bombay, Minneapolis, Minnesota. I was a little disappointed we didn't get Jan. I think it would have really driven home the United part if Jan would have came up and would have said, you know, Oslo, Norway. They're from Norway, right? I don't't know they're scandinavian i know that for sure but i'm pretty sure it's i'm pretty sure it's norway either way i would have loved that too

that would have been fantastic and tibbles yeah god tibbles is from god knows what i know i feel like tibbles is from fresno he's probably from some portal yeah and then so uh god and literally in my notes did you say fresno for tibbles yeah tibbles is definitely from fresno we'll go with that i like that um but literally in my notes i was like why am I so fired up right now? Like, why did this give me the chills of these kids standing up and saying where they're from? But Son of a Gun, I loved it, Brandon. Loved every second of it. See, I loved it as a kid.

Watching it now, it felt a little flabby. Honestly, probably because I was still worked up over the flags. Just getting hung up on that stupid shit instead of experiencing the minnesota miracle magic yeah the real magic comes in after this though now we get the magic yeah because now let's we're team usa gathered from all across america we're going to stick together you know why and this is where yan comes in just wonderfully he says because we are ducks and ducks fly together god damn right yon you will fucking so and so you and so and so here's where we get probably the best motivational moment locker this is what solidifies it as the best locker room moment ever. And just when

you think they're about to break apart, ducks fly together. And when the wind blows hard and the sky is black, ducks fly together. And when the roosters are crone and the cows are spinning circles in the pasture, ducks fly together. Oh, and when everyone says it can't be done,

ducks fly together. And that is that final little sprinkle, you know, that final little dash of salt on that stew before it becomes that magic oh brandon oh yeah we're full-on magic mode right now full oh my god it is just radiating through the building you know i think i'm thinking like you know like the more you know shooting star like it's just like spraying magic everywhere coming from the locker room um but this is where yon is like and now new ducks and old ducks must unite under a new banner and i thought perhaps something like this dot dot dot dot because oh my, when they fucking open up for the team to start coming out on the ice

and we see, we've got the Mighty Ducks music crescendoing in the background. We've got Luis, the most handsome of all the Ducks, just in that beautiful. And the slowest and just in the in what is hands down the best hockey uniform of all time debuted and my god brandon it was just the adrenaline was well didn't debut the the team the team is debuting it to the crowd in this universe, Brandon. Yeah. I think we talked about this. The adrenaline is fucking flowing through the veins.

I think we talked about this beforehand when – I don't know if we did it on the podcast or if it was off air. But talking about this whole moment with yawn and like why what you couldn't have done this before the game we couldn't have we couldn't have done the jerseys before the game yeah well we had that conversation with bombay and the fucking duck call delaying the game and after he didn't show up it's like you know what would have been cool coming into the locker room and doing it and showing up on fucking time. That would have been my pick. But once again, as a kid,

it was like, imagine Heath, if you will, Bombay wakes up on game day morning. Right. And the first thing he does as 40 old English 40 in his right hand. Exactly. But the,

uh, the first thing he does, you know, is he contacts his team, right? You know, he, he, he calls banks he contacts his team, right? He calls Banks and he's like – or he goes and sees Banks. And he's like, Banks, how are you doing? I'm still drunk. I can't drive.

Banks is like – and he's like, hey, Banks, how are you doing? And Banks is like, you wouldn't believe it. I feel great. My hand is up. And he's like, great. We'll put you in the lineup today because I'm not going to wait until the very last second to do this. And then he goes and he sees Jan, and Jan is like,

Bobby, I got these sick New Jerseys for you. And he's like, great. We'll wear them for the whole game today. Instead of waiting for the third fucking period. Because then we're going to come out of the gate with the magic. And then maybe it's 4-1 the other way. Exactly. Poor timing is a theme among this movie. Bombay has a real problem of staying ready.

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready, Heath. And Bombay spends 95% of his time getting ready. Yeah, he's reactive rather than proactive. And he is just a thorn in every project manager's side. But then we come out. Luis, first one on the ice, wearing the jerseys. And so I was curious to see – because you mentioned debut. I was curious, like thinking back.

I was like, did this debut, the jerseys, or was the hockey – the actual NHL team already playing? So I went back and looked. The actual hockey team started play October 1993. And then this movie came out March 94. So the jerseys had already been shown to the public. But this is the debut in the movie. Yeah. And I have clarity from our boy bob myers he says here to start the period

the third period and what team is this it's not team usa wait yes it is they've got new uniforms they're wearing the logo of the duck i've never seen this before. Wait, hold on. I've just gotten word. There is no rule against changing uniforms. They're the USA ducks. I love, I love his lines so much. One,

because he mentioned, he goes, what team is this? Yeah. It's like, well, Gordon Bombay's old team was called the ducks i guess we've got the usa ducks out there now and i don't know if we want to get into it or we want to wait to the

next episode but the crowd reaction to the debut of the ducks love it dude oh my god it's we will we will quack you and james is just fucking throwing down we tibbles is getting his dance moves in again yon we will we will quack you so good and i love the i love his line the the announcer's line when he's like i just got word it's not against the rules because you the reason that line is in this movie is because i guarantee you they did a test screening and somebody was like is are they actually allowed to change jerseys maybe we should clarify yeah you have to clarify that because that's the first thing and i wish i was clever enough to like come up with a really quick Freddie Mercury-esque rap after I was We Will Quacking You, but it's just not up there today. Sorry.

I apologize to the listeners. If I was bringing my A game instead of my B plus game, it would have been more. But like you mentioned, the crowd is loving this. And this goes – Just losing their fucking shit. This goes back to the Wheaties scene charlie gets upset that they can't be the ducks and like just the the audacity to take off team usa like i i am not usa chan is classic man i'm not i'm not a patriotic a very patriotic person i would say i would i would say i'm not

patriotic at all but still the audacity as team USA to take the Team USA jersey off and put the fucking Ducks logo on. And then every red-blooded American in the crowd is fucking loving it. You know what this scene told me? Is that we need to – what we need to do to unite this nation is is we need to rename the country the united ducks of america and then that that's our flag use that logo as our flag and then everybody everybody will rally around okay hold on can merch store idea united ducks of america you know put a little flag with a duck logo yeah in the you know where the stars are and then just just spitballing here with the with the fans listening in to some t-shirt ideas but i think that's uh we'll get that up on the merch store yeah the united ducks of america

go to the cake eaters pod.com to check out the merch, guys. Yeah. It's real dope. United Ducks of America. I'm just saying, I think that would really unite. That would go across aisles and really unite right and left, conservative, liberal. I think that's the move. That's the move. Dude, there will be so much fucking quacking going on city by city, state by state. You just see your fellow United Ducks of America. It's like as a Husker fan, every time it's like law that if you see a Nebraska, go big red.

If you don't give someone a go big red and a Husker shirt and you are a Husker, yikes. That's fucking rude got a rihanna talked about a rude boy boy um you gotta fucking you gotta give you gotta yell to go big red but that's what we would do quack quack quack quack go ducks every time you see a united duck of america yeah which is just so much quacking non-stop god it's that's a it's a universal language the quack yeah the usa ducks man i guess it would be and then yeah the uda united ducks of america that's man you know and we've talked about being quackalicious before but once again here we go that's another t-shirt idea you need to do quackalicious in like the fergalicious uh font okay as long as it's not trademarked well i think i think that would pass off as a parody

yeah we can once again another opportunity for me to rap that I have dropped the ball on. But, you know, but that wraps us up for this episode. Brandon is we are part nine. We're at. Yeah. And not to end it on like the most adrenaline pumping feel good moment. I mean, we are motivated. We will.

We will fucking quack the shit out of you we got the magic back baby oh mother of god it is just it's flowing it's it's i can't even describe how much magic is in the air right now merlin has got nothing on this battle. Magic from Bob. Thanks for listening, everyone. Don't forget to subscribe and rate us on your favorite podcast app. Follow us at TheCakeEatersPod on Instagram and TikTok. And visit TheCakeEatersPod.com for merchandise and more information on the podcast.